Doctor: You could be so wonderful. You're a genius, you're stone-cold-brilliant, you are, I swear, you really are. But you could be so much more. You could be beautiful. With a mind like that? We could travel the stars, it would be my honour. Because you don't need to own the universe, just see it. To have the privilege of seeing the whole of time and space — that's ownership enough.

The Master and the Doctor were friends in their schooldays, and have been chasing each other around and aiming ludicrously phallic objects◊ at each other since the 1970s. In the RTD era, they become the only Time Lords in existence, making the Doctor even more desperate to help the Master, who is fully aware of what it all sounds like:

The Doctor: I've been alone ever since... but not anymore. Don't you see? All we've got is each other! The Master: Are you asking me out on a date?

Helped along by Simm's Master being specifically cast and acted to resemble the Doctor in his actions and mannerisms. His wife, or as the Doctor surreptitiously calls her, The Beard, clearly was not willing to let another man run off with her husband though.

The Master was quite clearly being sarcastic during the part of the conversation quoted above. However, the way it started...

Master:(choked) Doctor. Doctor: Master. Master:(sighs) I like it when you use my name.

Later in the same episode, while the Master is bouncing around the command deck of the Valiant to the tune of "Voodoo Child", he even blows the Doctor a good-bye kiss.

There's also the Master pushing the Doctor around in his wheelchair, singing along to "I Can't Decide". Although the line doesn't feature in the programme, since Doctor Who is a child-friendly programme, the song contains the line "F*** and kiss you both at the same time".

"Lock the doors/And close the blinds/We're going for a ride..."

"The Mark of the Rani" provided some three-way Foe Yay between the Doctor, the Master and the Rani. Apparently strong enough to deserve a bit of lampshading.

The Doctor: The Rani IS a genius. Shame I can't stand her. [pause] I wonder if I was particularly nice to her she might... no. No, of course not.

At one moment she lies her head on his chest. Surely a brilliant scientist like The Rani would have a machine to see if he's alive or not.

The Rani apparently ships Doctor/Master, too, in addition to having Foe Yay with both: "You and the Doctor are a well-matched pair of pests". This isn't an isolated comment — she spends most of the episode making cracks about how she wishes the Doctor and the Master would take their courtship elsewhere and leave her to her experiments.

The Doctor: So why do they call you "The Master"? The Master: (seductively) I'll explain later...

In the non-canon webcast Scream of the Shalka, the Master has had his consciousness transferred into an android that was (according to production notes) created by the Doctor to save his life. They are now living together semi-peacefully on the TARDIS. Complete with marital bitching and a rather suggestive outgoing message on their answering machine.

Doctor (on recording): *giggle* — You have reached the good ship TARDIS. *giggle* We're rather — *giggle* — busy at the moment, *giggle* *giggle* so leave a message after the beep and we'll try to get back to you before you called. *giggle* — Stop that! *giggle* *giggle*

The author has admitted that, although this wasn't intentional (the answering machine message was supposed to be between the Doctor and his last female companion), he really likes the gay interpretation. While attending a Doctor/Master slash panel at a convention.

Referenced in "The Time of the Doctor". When Clara laments having accidentally invented a boyfriend, the Doctor mentions that he's been there himself, "And there's no easy way to get rid of an android."

The same author wrote the Doctor Who New Adventures novel Human Nature, in which the Doctor recalls "A boy in [his] class who so hated and loved [him] that he kept upsetting [his] experiments." Given Three specifies that he and The Master both did this, the implications run a little deep.

Then there's the scene with a sobbing Doctor cradling the Master's dying body in his arms in "Last of the Time Lords". It's nigh identical to any number of scenes from any number of programs where the hero holds his dying love interest in his arms.

It doesn't help that, after losing Rose at the end of "Doomsday", the Doctor shed but a single tear; in contrast, losing the Master prompted a full on breakdown.

And the Master keeping the Doctor in a dog kennel? Kinky...

The Doctor also seemed very admiring of Professor Yana back when he didn't know who he actually was.

It's personal for the Doctor. The Master is his enemy, his opposite, and yet so tantalisingly close to being his soul mate. There's something epic about their sheer existence — the last two survivors of an ancient race. It's a clash of the titans. Both of them heading for death, and yet both determined to survive — at any cost!

The second part of "The End of Time" includes the Doctor gushing about how brilliant the Master is and how beautiful he could be if he'd just give up this evil lark. "We could travel the stars; it would be my honour". When the Master shortly thereafter says he doesn't know what he'd be without the drums, the Doctor wonders "what [he'd] be without [the Master]." There's really nowhere else this one can go except to the land of canon.

To which the Master softly replies "Yeah." With John Simm visibly tearing up as he says it.

What with the Doctor saying that the only thing stopping him from running away with the Master into the sunset was the Master's habit of killing people? Not damn much.

And the Master makes some quite catty comments about the Doctor's fondness for earth girls throughout both parts, and seems unduly pleased with himself when he turns the Doctor's entire favourite species into... himself. Jealous, much?

On a related note, there's the Master cannibalizing the TARDIS into a Paradox Machine, especially since Doctor/TARDIS is pretty much canon. He really doesn't know how to share, does he?

Also, that scene in the Paul McGannfilm where the Master tackles the Doctor to the ground and tells him:

The Master: You are my life, Doctor.

AHistory, a book that attempted to put in chronological order all the events in Doctor Who published material up to 2006 made note of the line uttered by the Master as he burned in "Planet of Fire"

Won't you show mercy to your own...[burns]

They note that people think the final word is "brother" but another, less common guess is "husband".

In the interests of balance (i.e. being a spoilsport), it could just as easily have been "kind".

And the 2007 two-parter "The Sound of Drums" / "Last of the Time Lords" establishes the two were childhood friends, not brothers. Word of God from the writer/producer is this was intentional in order to eliminate any speculation that the Master is the Doctor's brother.

The Twelfth Doctor goes there in "World Enough And Time", admitting he had a man-crush on the Master at the Academy.

An old favorite from the past: "The Sea Devils" starts with the Doctor visiting The Alcatraz where he put the Master during their last encounter (while making sure he would be comfortable sincehe was going to be there for quite some time) for no other reason than to make sure he was doing all right — the fact that he happened to stumble on the mystery of the month was a pure coincidence. The Master on his hand plays the role of the model prisoner, makes polite conversation with his guards and claims to have seen the error of his ways. He has a polite conversation with the Doctor and ends it with wishing that the Doctor would visit more often so he can have some intelligent discussions. He then reaches out his hand in friendship. The Doctor reaches for it, changes his mind, and awkwardly waves a goodbye to the Master. Argh!

Four episodes later, when shit has hit the fan and the Master is his usual evil self, he keeps the captured Doctor alive for a convoluted reason. And then when his allies betray him, they end up sharing the same hole together, chummily/sarcastically chatting amongst themselves until rescue arrives.

Also, in one scene, they're in a storage room together, working on a device, and for some reason, the Doctor comes up behind the Master and grabs his sides.

And then there's "The Time Monster", where the Doctor and the Master's TARDISes end up inside each other. Yeah. And then it ends with the Master on his knees, begging the Doctor for mercy.

The whole serial is one huge Doctor/Master slashfest, honestly. It starts with the Doctor having a nightmare about the Master. Wherein he lies on a chaise longue and wakes up to a giant Master looming over him, calling out to the Doctor: "Welcome! Welcome to your new Master!"

The Fifth Doctor serial "The King's Demons" is made of this. "You have always been my greatest stimulation, my dear Doctor, but now you inspire me."

"The King's Demons" is just swimming in Ho Yay, starting with a very suggestive sword fight between Five and Ainley, and culminating in the Master's revelation that he has a robot that he can transform into the Doctor by sheer force of will. Rather than be weirded out, the Doctor uses his own psychic energy to transform said robot to look like the Master. They spend a few minutes simply playing with their new toy, turning it into each other while giving each other long closeup looks.

In Doctor Who Legacy, the Ninth Doctor's reaction to hearing that the Master is involved is simply "Fantastic!"

In the Big Finish Short Trips prose story "Christmas Truce", by Terrance Dicks, the Master sneaks into a UNIT Christmas party using an elaborate disguise, a funny accent and a lot of hypnotism... just so he can spend some time with the Doctor. Three wearily allows it, and the two of them drink some champagne on the UNIT terrace, gaze at the stars and reminisce about the time on Gallifrey they spent hanging out in Shobogan bars. Afterwards, Jo wonders why the Master even bothered planting a bunch of microphones and explosives and such around UNIT base in the process, since the Doctor would inevitably find them anyway — and the Doctor comments that the Master just really wanted to share a nice glass of champagne with an old friend, but couldn't let his evil reputation get tarnished.

In the novel "Harvest Of Time", by Alastair Reynolds, the Doctor and the Master spend an inordinate amount of time not killing each other when they have the chance to, and making up rubbish excuses as to why they're letting each other live. The Doctor also goes out of his way to save the Master's life after the latter gets his skull invaded by a tentacled robo-crab.

You have to wonder, too, why the Master went through all the trouble of helping the Fifth Doctor heal from his recent regeneration in "Castrovalva" before revealing his evil plan.

Because then he couldn't keep feeding the Doctor the Portreeve's healing tonic, which includes valerian (sedative, euphoric, attaches to the same receptors as benzodiazepines such as Rohypnol), rosemary (a powerful muscle relaxant) and sanicle (a herb used to staunch... anal bleeding). Honestly.

The Alex Macqueen incarnation of the Master, also in Big Finish, is by far the campest one of them all — while still being very, very sinister. His plans for Seven involve merging the both of them into a single being, with Seven's mind as a slave to his own, so they can rule the galaxy together for all of eternity. (He fails, of course.) When he finally meets Eight, he spends a few minutes simply admiring the Doctor's beauty, making appreciative noises and commenting on his hair.

"The Mind of Evil" contains an especially poignant scene where the Master subjects the Doctor to the effects of a dangerous machine, then visibly panics when he realizes he's nearly killed the Doctor. His demeanor once the Doctor wakes up is about two parts tender concern to one part How Dare You Die on Me!. Note how he spends most of their conversation right up in the Doctor's personal space. Also note the way his voice trembles when he says, "You were within an inch of dying." His strange love-hate feelings for the Doctor are nearly palpable.

In the Big Finish Doctor Who AU episode "Exile", the Doctor regenerates as a woman. She notices a guy making eyes at her and immediately assumes he's the Master.

The mysterious Missy in series 8 refers to the Doctor as her boyfriend, and claims he loves her very much. In "Dark Water," Missy shoves the Doctor against a wall, snogs him absolutely senseless, and then finishes by planting three small kisses upon his nose. (After which she promptly offers Clara a snog as well.) She says that she's a robot, "maintained by her heart", taking his hand and putting it to her chest. When asked who maintains her heart, she says "My heart is maintained by the Doctor!" (She lets him be confused for a moment before summoning a "Dr. Chang.") After it becomes clear that none of that is true and she's in fact not a very nice lady, he storms off shouting for Clara, and Missy makes a very Yandere joke about whether she'd be sexy to him if she'd "shoot you in a jealous rage". The Doctor is genuinely terrified when she drops The Reveal on him: "Oh, you know who I am. I'm Missy. Short for Mistress. Well, I couldn't very well keep calling myself "The Master," now could I?" It had always been speculated that it was possible, and now it's happened: The Master is now a woman, the first Time Lord to be seen onscreen in both male and female regenerations. A woman who calls the Doctor her boyfriend, snogs the living hell out of him to a degree that tops every companion or guest character who's ever done it (and that's a list of decent length!) and finishes with three cute little kisses to the nose, says her heart is maintained by the Doctor, talks of shooting him in a jealous rage, and of course the same flirtatious banter they've always had is still going on from the moment we find out she's not a robot whose "intimacy settings" are a little off. In "Death In Heaven", they finally have a good long proper talk about their friendship, and she reveals that her entire evil plan... was a gift for him. She still wants his friendship. When he realises how completely broken she is, and how unlike her he is, he very gently kisses her on the lips in return. And subsequently can't bring himself to kill her, as always.

To recap, the Master hatched a plan that spanned centuries to create a gigantic army that could take over the universe and then gave it to the Doctor as a present so he could use it to fight evil or whatever he does, and then when the Doctor figured out a way to save the earth and destroy the army she spent so long on, she just stands there and watches him do it without protest. And then tries to give him something she knows he really would want — both of them going home together. (Presuming that she would have led him to Gallifrey's actual location if she had gone with him.)

In the ninth series premiere "The Magician's Apprentice", a resurrected Missy shows Clara a disc that is the "last will" of the Doctor "to be given to his best friend." When Clara reaches for it, Missy tells her to stop as it was MISSY the disc was bequeathed to as the Doctor's oldest friend.

She says "Traps are my flirting." Do we need to elaborate?

She plays the bit of 'Hey Mickey' which goes: “Oh Mickey, what a pity, you don’t understand, You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand”

And then there's the whole second half of Series 10, where The Doctor refuses to execute her, instead trying to reform her while acting as her jailer for a thousand years...

...which culminates with Missy saving his life from her former self, wavering on saving him later, but then actually deciding to give up being evil and travel with the Doctor instead. And then she gets shot in the back. In fact, there's a common fan interpretation regarding "The Doctor Falls" that Missy making a point of pressing her hand into the Doctor's before she leaves him behind was to show him the knife she planned to kill Harold Saxon with, showing she never really abandoned him after all.

It's been noted by some fans that the Doctor lets the Master get away with a lot of shit they wouldn't tolerate from any of their other villains (cf. trying to steal the Doctor's lives in the TVM, the Year That Never Was, "The End of Time", trying to get the Doctor to kill Clara)...

I really do think you ought to be a bit more reasonable with the Master. I mean, he keeps offering you a share in the galaxy, or whatever's going on, and you keep refusing him and playing dirty tricks on him. But, you see, the trouble is with you is, well, you're so stiff-necked. I mean, you've got to realise that this time...

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The War Chief in "The War Games" is all over the Doctor, with lines such as "We are two of a kind" and "We need each other". This is one reason why some fans believe he's an earlier Master. Noted on the DVD commentary by Frazer Hines:

War Chief: (Having just made sure he's alone with the Doctor) You may have changed your face, but I know who you are.

"Ah", said the Doctor, "I see I was standing too close. Invading your personal space. Of course, even from over here I'm invading your personal space. [...] All nestled up under your ribs. Quite intimate, really. Yet we hardly know each other. Love songs have been written about less."

[...] "˜I kept wondering where my heart had got to. [...] Had it joined a club for other lonely ones of its kind? Was it achy? Or breaky? Did it now belong to someone named Daddy?" Sabbath had turned his attention to some papers. The Doctor suddenly stretched out across them, like a cat taking over a computer keyboard. He gazed soulfully into Sabbath's eyes. "˜Shall I call thee Father?" [...]

Sabbath left the room. "I've got you under my skin", the Doctor warbled after him.

In the same book, the Doctor manages to give them a shared Dream Sequence, in which the Doctor turns into a seal and kisses Sabbath. After he turns back, an attack by a giant time squid rocks the boat they're on in this dream sequence, they fall over, and the Doctor ends up on top of Sabbath, panting.

The Doctor gazed up at him limpidly. [...] Sabbath stared at the beautiful, unreadable face.

‘There is that,’ sighed the Doctor. He pulled his feet out of the water and drew his knees up under his chin, wrapping his arms around them, his pale eyes fixed on the foaming falls. There were bits of twig and green leaf in his dishevelled hair. Silva daemonium, thought Sabbath with ironic erudition. To him, at that moment, the Doctor looked much younger than that fool he travelled with. A sick boy. Sabbath wondered idly whether the loss of his heart, which had saved his life, would in the long run kill him.

In "Asylum of the Daleks", the Doctor unknowingly flirts with a Dalek. Granted, she didn't know she was a Dalek either, but still... "Asylum of the Daleks" also reveals that the Daleks consider hatred to be beautiful. And that that is the reason they have never been able to kill the Doctor. For much, if not necessarily all of the show, the Doctor has hated the Daleks so much, and the Daleks have thought his hatred was beautiful, a work of art. He could have had some level of Foe Yay with the Daleks the entire time and not realized it.

In Big Finish, the Eighth Doctor has some intense, blatant Foe Yay in the Grand Finale episode "The Next Life" during his second encounter with Big Bad Zagreus. It's very one-sided, though, and he tells her to stop it even before he realises who she is. By that time, she's already managed to get him out of his shirt (not particularly difficult in Eight's case) and proposed an Adam and Eve Plot to him. The fact that she's played by Daphne Ashbrook, who played Grace in the TV movie, makes it even better.

In "Ghost Light", Ace's Girl of the Week Gwendoline repeatedly calls her "my dear," while chasing her all over the house with a chloroform soaked handkerchief. During this they wind up physically wrestling each other twice. The latter occasion is on a bed, and prompts another character to remark "Here, you can get arrested for that!" Given that this is set in the Victorian Era, it's more than possible that's literal.

As the Great Intelligence, Richard E. Grant seems more dedicated than ever in series 7 to get mentioned on this page again, grabbing the Doctor's face with a black leather glove and bringing their mouths close together while they stare defiantly at each other.

Li H'sen Chang in "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" seems to get obsessed with the Doctor, based on the fact that Chang's mind-reading powers don't work on him. He describes him in awe as "tall, with wide pale eyes, and hair that curls like the ram", and singles him out for magic tricks. Mark Gatiss is a fan, and relished his part in Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible in which he played one half of a homoerotic rivalry between Chang and Fourth Doctor Expies.

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